Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-10
NORTH STATE LANDS.
TIE GREAT scaEKE OF PUBLIC IN.
pRovEMBETs TO BEGIN.
Personal Notes.-The Baptist Ministers
confsrsncs-Gsnsral Esws Items
The Fruit Crop, &c.
rspccias telegram 10 the Dispatch.l

| OF improvements 81 tne pubic lands
there. Extensive work is soon TO be.
| gin on the great scheme of public i'm
proyements inaugurated by the late
Legislature.
A report received to-day from Ashe-
vile saws that careful examination OF
the fruit trees in the mountain section
shows that the damage by the intense
cold ten days ago is less than was be-
lieved possible.
Collector Marlborough, of this revenue
district, has appointed James w. Moore
deputy collector for the Newberne dis
trict rice Alpheus w. Wood, resigned.
Mrs. Scales left here to-day for Old
Point, w., to join her husband, Gov
ernor Scales, and daughter, Miss Kate
Scales. She will remain some weeks at
the Hygeia. Governor Scales is ex-
pected TO return Tuesday.
Judge Seymour said to-day that it is
row certain that no decision will be
given by Judge Bond in the special
tax-bonds cases until the June term OF
the Circuit Court at this city.
The BAPTIST MINISTERS CONFERENCE.
The coming week will be an i'm
portant one 10 the Baptists of the State.
On Monday the Baptist ministers will
hold a conference at Tarboro'. The
conference closes Wednesday evening.
The programme is very interesting
one, and some of the ablest men in
this powerful denomination wil discuss
important subjects. Rev. r. Vande-
yenter, of Henderson, breaches the
opening sermon Monday evening. The
subject" North Carolina and the Bap-
fists will be discussed by Rev. Dr.
J. ID. Huffman. of Scotland Neck, and
Rev. DR.. Charles +. Taylor, the presi-
dent of Wake Forest College. Rev.
Dr.. Thomas E. Skinner, of Raleigh,
and Rev. j. NJ. McNanaway, Of VIII
sen, win discuss Denominational
Strength" An important subject
THE Sunday-School Idea will be
thoroughly handled by Revs. J. l..
White, of Raleigh, George j. Dowell,
of Hamilton, and Colonel J. NJ. Heck,
of Raleigh. Two very able men-Rev.
Dr.. Thomas II. Pritchard, of Whining
ton, and Rev. II. T. Vann, of Wake
Forest, will speak on Education and
the Ministry" An entirely new field
of view will be entered by Rev. Thomas
Dixon, of Goldsboro'. and Rev. A. j.
Hires, of Kinston, who will discuss
"The Labor Question and the
Churches" As labor questions are en-.
tering into religious as well as political
matters, the discussion will be pertinent
and certainly interesting. Rev. DIR. G.
+. Bailey, Of Raleigh, editor of that
admirable paper the Bibticai Recorder,
and one of the wittiest and wisest of
Baptists,) will speak of "Denomina-
tionnl Literature" Rev. I. J. Taylor,
Of WGIrenton, sharing in the discussion.
4 delicate and difficult question, 1.-THE
Proper Attitude of the Churches To-
wards the Temperance Movement"
Will be discussed, Interestingly no
doubt, by Rev. Baylus Cade, Of Louis
burg date of Virginia., and Rev. c.
Durham, of Durham.
THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY
will hold its thirty fourth annual meet
ing at Charlotte next Wednesday and
Thursday. There will be a large at
tendance, and number Of physicians
from Virginia, South Carolina, and
other States are expected to be present.
a number of papers, essays, &cS will
I've presented, with reports OF sections
and voluntary reports. The annual
Grafton and prize essay will be features
Of the meeting.
ORANGE PRESBYTERY.
The one-hundred-an fifty-second ses-
ion of this presbytery begins at New
terne next Wednesday. 1t is q large
i.resbytery, and the oldest OF the five
composing the Synod of the State.
About forty ministers are expected to
attend it, with a number OF lay dele
oates. These will represent q section
If the State from Surry county TO Wash
lngton county. The presbytery will
close its session Sunday next.
PERSONALS.
u is expected that Captain V. Il.
McBee, superintendent of the Western
North Carolina railroad. and of the
sheville and Spartansburg railroad
will be given charge of the line from
Charlotte to Statesville.
Mr.. II. Mershon, president OF the
hank at Hickory, died few evenings
past of apoplexy. He was native OF
Michigan.
Mr.. Patrick Henry Winston, one of
The wittiest men OF this State, has for
zone years been United States land
gent at Lewiston, Idaho. II is said
hat he will return to North Carolina
his spring and again become a citizen
IF Winston.
Mrs. /. A. Wingate, the venerable
mother of the late Rev. DIR. William
NJ. Wingate, died at Wake Forest yes
!, rday of paralysis. Her son was for a
quarter of century president of the
ollegc. She was over eighty years Of
.ge.
CURRENT NEWS.
The Roman Catholics, who, by the
way, are gaining rapidly in numbers in
his State, are working hard in all direc-
ions of Church extension and progress.
They have q convent in CASTOR county.
md will in a few weeks begin the cree
ion of another at Charlotte.
A report made yesterday shows that
he bonded debt of Wilmington is
1863, zoo, of which $3.50, 800 will be re-
unded IN July next. The city's
inances are in handsome shape, thanks
o good Democratic management.
In few days the iron for the street
ailway at Wilmington is expected to |
lrrive. By midsummer five miles OF |
cad will have been laid, covering the
business and residence parts OF that
city.
The companies of the Second regi- |
nent will attend the railway celebra-
ion at Clinton on the 9th instant.
he regiment goes into camp at Will |
nington May 20-22d. Some of the
will go from Wilmington to
Washington, ID. c., to attend the na-
ional drill. Some companies OF the
first and Third regiments may attend
he railway celebration at Pittsboro'. F!
| he Durham Light Infantry will GER
aiDly be present
Mr.. Ebas Harris, farmer in Chat
IAN county, has left his family and
'ounty and has fed to parts unknown
With woman. He leaves wife and
several children behind him. He has
zone southwark.